“good job, SXSW,” but there is no praise to give here, as the decision was only made after massive pressure from all directions and all of the money pulling out making it clear that this year was going to be so sparsely attended, and the sponsorship dollars so dried up that the ...
not to mention the sheer intrusion of a bitumen racetrack bisecting the lawns which have previously been home to festivals like Fat as Butter, charity events and the well attended Anzac Dawn services. Presumably, in 2017, access to this
I had a fun time yesterday with many SXSW attendees and residents of this great city. Special thanks to BookPeople for hosting, to Betty Jean for coordinating a large amount of beer and cupcakes, and to everyone who showed up. Life is good and I’ll be going for some of Austin’s ...
Despite this, the annual festival continues to be one of the most sought-after and attended festivals in the United States. This year’s Essence Festival of Culture will be held at the Superdome from July 4-7, replete with legendary and fast-rising talents. On July 5, Birdman & Friends ...
But with each SXSW he attended, he did notice that local residents, frustrated with a swarm of outsiders flooding into Austin yet again, were just waiting for the week to be over. And the changing nature of the event year after year has altered how bands, and their fans, experience ...
having recently attendedDave McClure’stalk atDogpatch LabsBoston,it feels to me like there is still a big gap between what is posted in the blogosphere and what is really getting through in a consumable way to many entrepreneurs. Chris Dixon recently did a great post ondeveloping new startup...
The Orchard team recently attended the SXSW Panel titled “How Do You Talk To Your Audience About Climate?” Speakers included two of our distributed artists, Ayoni (self-released), and Malin Pettersen (Jansen Records) as well as Bad Activist Collective’s Tori Tsui and Julia Gentner...
In the year 2014, I literally became a living breathing personification of the #1 top innovation trend in the World. It happened at SXSW (South by Southwest) on the main stage of SXSW Interactive which usually has about 33,000 people in attendance. SXSW is the mecca ...
The gathering was attended by more than 40 staffers, about half of them women, almost all casual in jeans and sneakers. Kushner (who was again wearing the Mr. Rogers sweater) sat in the back. With Nohria at the chalkboard, we reviewed a case study in which a startup had experienced ex...
Meanwhile, offline meetups appear to be making a comeback. More than 476,000 people attended in-person singles and speed-dating events in the US in the year to November, up 69 per cent from the same period in 2023, according to ticketing platform Eventbrite. There are lessons here about ...